Green Machine
First Grade
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That rely out of the NRL is the greatest load of bullsh*t I have ever read. How could the NRL say that the game will fall over because they are relying on the money that they will receive from the next exclusive radio rights. Next year they want to start a National Youth League and fly players all over the place. If all the second tier clubs pull the funding they are providing to Premier League now, where will the NRL clubs find the extra expense to fund a National Youth League. Let alone the travel costs. One minute they are claiming they’re broke and the next they’re pissing money away like a drunken sailor. Considering the amount of promotion in Sydney during Grand Final, the NRL could be broke. I am old enough to remember the 2 previous trials of Monday Night football. On both occasions, tickets were given away and in some cases, there was hardly anyone at the ground. If crowds for Monday Night games are down to say 5,000 spectators on current averages, at $20 a head that’s, $100k a game. 5,000 would be a conservative estimate. Over 24 weeks, that’s $2.4m. I would love to know how much 2GB and Triple M paid for exclusive radio rights. If it is so good, why doesn’t the NRL release the figure. They don’t even have a press release on their website or on News Ltd’s. The next Foxsports contract is for $60m for 5 games a week. It would be interesting to know the dollar value Monday Night adds to the $60m. The current negotiations between Channel’s 7 & 10 and Foxtel for AFL rights have Foxtel offering $45m for 4 games a week (no Monday Nights and at worse a Sunday twilight game) and Channel’s 7 & 10 wanting $70m for 4 games. Channel’s 7 & 10 may end up negotiating a better deal out of Foxtel than the NRL can get out of Foxsports, with no Monday Night games. That is very embarrassing for the NRL. That article by Dean Ritchie the other day about the figure for Naming and Internet rights did not sound like a very good deal either, even though Dean thought it was great deal. Instead of signing to these stupid exclusive contracts that exclude genuine fans, maybe they can get on the phone to the AFL and find out how they extract the maximum out of their deals and don’t exclude anyone,